On 07/17/2007 01:40 AM, Ray Lee wrote:
On 7/16/07, Rene Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
On 07/17/2007 01:13 AM, Ray Lee wrote:
> Given that there's actual, y'know, reports of people who can easily
> crash a 4k+interrupt stacks kernel, and not an 8k one, I think the
> current evidence speaks for itself.
Where?
The second message in this thread, according to my reader, from Zan
Lynx. Another from Utz Lehmann a few minutes ago.
True enough. I'm rather wondering though why RHEL is shipping with it if
it's a _real_ problem. Scribbling junk all over kernel memory would be the
kind of thing I'd imagine you'd mightely piss-off enterprise customers with.
But well, sure, that rather quickly becomes a self-referential argument I guess.
Removing any such option was not the objective of this thread, just
lifting 4K stacks from debug and making it the default.
True, but your messages are reading as advocacy for removing the 8k
option. I'm saying that's a bad idea. If I misunderstood your
position, then my bad.
I personally believe that CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not better only for very few
users but well, no, if even some users exist, then I wouldn't want to
suggest they'd be disallowed (shared or unshared) 8K stacks.
I _would_ in fact suggest there are few enough left that rather than 4K, 8K
should really be the option that only those few would select, but ofcourse,
given config defaults that's mostly a matter of semantics, so who cares in
the end.
If they even realize that it's the cause of the problem. In the
meantime, we're generating more bug reports to lkml. As the general
opinion is that the ones getting received now aren't getting enough
attention (see regression tracking threads), setting a default that is
known to break setups in hard to debug ways seems counterproductive.
Well, no. "oldconfig" works fine, and other than that, all failure modes
I've heard about also in this thread are MD/LVM/XFS. This is extremely
widely tested stuff in at least Fedora and RHEL. "hard to debug" is simply
not the case -- every one will immediately start yelling 4KSTACKS when that
software-stack appears anywhere.
Don't try and hang this off generic development unease... ;-)
Rene.
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